18th century total war

Chapter 429 The Orc Trial

In the mist of the morning light, the sound of the ancient horn came through the light, and the Hispanic corporal Rodriguez, who was lying in the trench, subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the Master Chief's familiar "howling of wolves" sounded in his ears.

"Check your equipment, and wait for the enemy to enter a distance of 300 meters before opening fire. If there is no order, they will be nailed to death in the trenches. If anyone dares to leave without permission, I will be the first to shoot him!"

The Master Chief, who was dressed like an ordinary soldier, walked behind Rodriguez while repeating the same words over and over again.

Rodriguez lay on the damp soil, helped his military cap, and looked at the layers of barbed wire and uneven wooden pile barricades outside the trench, feeling a little relieved.

Rodriguez, who was a private, was not a recruit. He had been in the army for five years, and he directly and indirectly killed more people than his hands.

Since the Europa Empire took over the colonies of Spain and Portugal on the European continent, the colonial army has been more and more violent in order to promote the personality cult idea of ​​​​Livy the Great and suppress the Revolutionary Party.

For Livy, the political meanings of American colonies and Europa mainland are completely different.

The homeland of Europa is Levi's base camp, where the technology and industrial essence of Levi's forces are gathered here. Even a small-scale riot will bring huge economic losses, so stability is naturally the main priority.

For this reason, Li Wei did not hesitate to promote the more popular French Revolution ideology politically, but just replaced the concept of nationalism in it.

Nationalism has been transformed into nationalism and loyalty to the monarch. Nationalism and loyalty to the monarch are not contradictory in this era, but complement each other. Simply put, 'I am the country'.

Even in the parallel world of Li Wei's previous life, the European empire before the First World War, the state and monarchism went hand in hand.

Until the end of the First World War, the powerful European empires collapsed one after another, and the remaining empires also had to carry out a certain degree of reform under the surging nationalist trend of thought to adapt to the general trend.

However, in the world where Li Wei lived, there was no beginning of the First World War, and the newly sprouted nationalism was relatively easy to control, and it was easier to castrate and delete.

It's just that dealing with colonies doesn't need to be so troublesome.

If Europa itself is a variant of nationalism and monarchism, then in the colonies it is a naked feudal imperialist rule.

To put it simply, if the government asks you to say one thing, you must not say two things, otherwise it will be illegal!

Truth is insignificant under the stick of imperialism.

Such a simple and brutal way of governing will naturally attract the resistance of the "inferior people" in the American colonies who have already had the germination of nationalist ideas.

Therefore, since the European Empire took over the American colonies, there have been riots and peasant uprisings almost every year, which indirectly promoted the combat experience of the colonial troops.

Although the American colonial army at this time is not comparable to the regular army of the Europa Empire, its experience in suppressing mobs and bandits is actually higher than that of the regular army of the Europa Empire. As long as it is a colonial army soldier who has been in the army for several years, his hands are covered with blood. .

In order to ensure the loyalty of the American colonial army, Emperor Li Wei followed the way of the minority ruling the majority in his previous life, using 'skin color' to separate the social classes of the colonies.

This is not difficult to implement in the American colonies, because the Spanish and Portuguese colonies themselves have a tradition of superiority of white people to others, and even divide the society into four racial classes.

Divided by skin color and family origin.

Among them, one or two generations of white immigrants from Europe and descendants of European white aristocrats who ruled the American colonies are the highest class of Americans.

Indigenous Indians who are not even white mixed blood are the lowest.

At the same time, it is also the largest group.

How to make the colonial army far away from Tiangao Emperor not easily rebel?

The simplest way is to create a class enemy that occupies the majority of the population for the composition of the colonial army.

Therefore, the soldiers in the American colonial army of the Europa Empire were either Caucasian or mixed-race, and all of them were "clean".

Then grant them various privileges (in fact, to maintain the privileges of the original Spanish and Portuguese rule), and continue to oppress the Native American Indians. Naturally, these people can only hug the big thick legs of the Europa Empire.

In this way, the people with military power in the American colonies have a severed relationship with the people, and the force they control cannot be compared with the Europa Empire, and there is no soil for warlords at all.

Not to mention, the important military and political ministers in the major colonial areas of the American colonies have all been enlightened by Li Wei's administration, and it is even more difficult to rebel.

The industrialization process of the American colonies was about zero, and they were completely used by the Europa Empire as a source of raw materials and an agricultural base.

Those indigenous people in the bottom class of society can only engage in strong physical labor and agricultural planting and production, and are jokingly called free slaves.

Racial discrimination and class oppression could be seen everywhere in the American colonies, and social conflicts abounded, ensuring that the American colonial governments and colonial armies always stood against the majority of the people.

It's a pity that Rodriguez, a gentleman in the American colonies who is carefree with the big thick legs of the Europa Empire, ended his happy life of three wives and four concubines like other colleagues, and came to the northern border of the Mexican Colonial Viceroyalty to defend the foreign world. Attack of the orcs.

Even though Rodriguez is just a first-class soldier, he has the identity of the colonial army after all. There are countless things about bullying men and women, and he has slept with countless indigenous girls outside.

The most irritating thing is that those aboriginal girls still dare not speak up, and even their husbands are proud of it...

This is not an isolated case, not to mention this barbaric and backward era, even in the 21st century, how many women in the workplace dare not have a clear relationship with their bosses?
Don't you really think their husbands don't know?

Some are even encouraged by their husbands!
After all, if this kind of thing is really calculated, the cost is actually very low, which saves more than giving gifts and money, and the relationship is even stronger!

In the workplace, if you give gifts to people, they may not pay attention to you, but if your boss sleeps with your wife, how dare he not take care of you?

Even a civilized society in the 21st century cannot eliminate this phenomenon, let alone the 19th century today?

And this time he was not facing the mob rebels and bandits who needed several people to share even one musket, but a legendary orc from another world who could fight ten!

Even their chiefs have been exhorted thousands of times, they can use guns to kill the enemy, and never try to use bayonets!

The deafening shouts came from the morning mist after the horn ended. Rodriguez subconsciously tightened the Charles III rifle in his hand, and his eyes were not aimed at the machine gun position less than a hundred meters away from his position.

There's a hand-cranked Gatling, three machine gunners manning the rapid-fire weapon, and a few black-skinned men carrying the ammunition.

The equipment of the colonial army was completely behind by an era, so it was not equipped with water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns. Except for the Charles III bolt-action rifles that had just been installed in Europa, the machine guns were all hand-cranked Gatling guns.

As for other heavy weapons, Rodriguez, who is only a private, doesn't know.

But a few days ago, he heard that a group of big guys had been transferred from the artillery side.

How big it is, he has never seen it, and he dare not inquire about it.

In the morning mist, ordinary figures appeared one after another. When Rodriguez saw the vanguard on the opposite side, his eyes widened in surprise.

"It turned out to be a group of Indians?
Or the Indians with shields and spears, is this our enemy? "

Appearing in Rodriguez's field of vision was a group of Indians who dressed cheaply. You don't need to look at their skin color, just look at their outfits to know that they are a group of wild Indians who are not even eligible for slavery...

This tribe of wild Indians, Rodriguez has also besieged and suppressed it before, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as those of the mob uprising army...

At least, the mob uprising army is a unit of faith, no matter whether the faith is loyal or not, the slogan is so loud.

Of course, slogans are very fragile in the face of steel.

The nationalist thought of this era has no suitable soil to ferment at all, and no Gus has appeared. It is completely different from the nationalist thought of Li Wei's previous life and later generations.

In fact, when Li Wei had not established the French Empire, the revolutionary army born in the French Revolution was already extreme enough to be close to the national ideology of later generations, but after Li Wei took power, he suppressed this extreme thought across the board and suppressed it to nothing...

The direct result of this is that nationalist ideas around the world have only scratched the surface and have no core values ​​at all.

Not to mention any guerrilla warfare weapon to mobilize the masses.

"No, it's not just the native Indians. These native Indians seem to be persecuted..."

The sharp-eyed Rodriguez soon discovered that behind the densely packed shields of the Indians, there was a short monster with a dog's head waving a weapon and driving away the crowd.

"This should be the kobolds among the orcs from the other world, are they the supervising team to drive out the native Indians?
Unexpectedly, the legendary orcs who have no brains also know how to expel cannon fodder to consume our ammunition. "

While Rodriguez was observing and thinking wildly, he suddenly heard his Master Chief shout loudly: "Fire!"

Rodriguez has a lot of combat experience. After hearing the order, he immediately opened the safety cover skillfully, leaned on the trench and raised the Charles III bolt-action rifle, and put himself in the most accustomed shooting position, aiming for a few seconds. A few minutes later, the trigger was pulled.

With a bang gunshot, Rodriguez watched with satisfaction as a native Indian who charged forward holding a primitive wooden shield and deceiving himself fell down.

I don't know whether the orcs who drove the native Indians were stupid or the native Indians were ignorant. They actually thought that a single-handed wooden shield could stop bullets?

Do you really think they are still using the ancient matchlocks and flintlocks?

The penetrating power of pointed bullets is not comparable to that of round lead bullets.

As a result, the native Indians running and charging on the battlefield, together with the kobolds hiding in their ranks and responsible for supervising and driving the battle, were knocked down by scattered sawdust and warheads.

Kobolds are not a powerful fighting race in the orc tribal alliance, but vassals of vassals.

The werewolves are the vassals of the green-skinned orcs, and the kobolds are the vassals of the werewolves!

However, compared to other disadvantaged groups, the kobolds have two advantages on the battlefield.

Kobolds are naturally brutal and ferocious, and once they see blood, they are easy to attack.

Therefore, kobolds are among the weaker races of the orc race, a rare group who dare to show their teeth to the powerful races.

Without the protection of the werewolf clan, the Kobold clan would have been exterminated long ago...

Obviously, the ferocity of the kobolds is very suitable for the battlefield. Compared with the cowardly and fearful meows who are as greedy as humans and afraid of death, they should not be too strong!
In addition, kobolds are extra obedient and loyal when facing werewolves, which is why kobolds can only be vassals of werewolves and cannot become vassals of green-skinned orcs.

Under the orders of the werewolves, the kobolds are very qualified cannon fodder.

Even though kobolds are not as tall as humans and have no racial talent, they are still commonly used by orcs on the battlefield.

For example, drive cannon fodder.

These native Indians are naturally the result of beasts sweeping across the west coast and central Great Plains of North America.

The process of the westward migration of the Orc Tribal Alliance is a history of plundering wars, and the fighting has never stopped.

The orcs also knew that there were not enough people in their own family, so on the North American continent where there was plenty of food, they didn't use all the captured humans as rations.

Instead, it gave those native Indian tribes who were willing to give their loyalty a chance to pledge their allegiance.

In this way, the orc tribes that swept across North America westward established a large number of Indian native cannon fodder corps.

These native Indian cannon fodders are usually responsible for helping the orc masters hunt and farm. During battles, they need to pick up their crude weapons and charge on the front line to consume the enemy's ammunition.

It is not only the kobolds who are hiding in the cannon fodder of the native Indians, but also a group of wolf cavalry riding giant wolves behind the vanguard.

Whether it is a native Indian or a kobold, if they dare to turn around, they will be slaughtered bloody by them.

This was just a tentative attack by the orc tribe, so the green-skinned orcs who were the overlord did not send troops, but only the vassal races in the orc tribe.

The sound of rattling machine guns suddenly erupted from various positions, and the native Indians in the charge fell down like cutting wheat, no matter whether they raised their shields or not.

In less than 10 minutes, the charging native Indians couldn't hold it anymore!
(End of this chapter)